We’ve had an extensive look at the outside of the new consoles, but what about the inside? We’re only a week away from the launch of the PS4, so now is the time to get to know it a little bit better. A video of Sony’s Yasuhiro Ootori executing a complete teardown of the PS4 went live today, and now the public finally gets to see just how beautiful the innards really are.

Microsoft has gone out of its way to dismiss the PS4’s perceived superiority, but recent reports indicate that Redmond might be in more trouble than it is letting on. If these rumors are to be believed, the PS4 is actually upwards of 50% more powerful than the Xbox One.

The PS4 will benefit from a superior GPU and super-fast unified GDDR5 RAM, but Microsoft believes that the performance difference will end up being negligible. With some interesting workarounds built into the Xbox One hardware, and the brutal realities of game development, Microsoft might just be right. After all, horsepower isn’t the only factor in game performance.

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